Democrats, poised for congressional gains and a possible presidential win, may revive the Fairness Doctrine, which would force broadcasters to give equal time to each side of a controversial subject, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing some statements by conservative…
Four Kansas television stations will offer pay-per-view broadcasts of live video streams of two high school football championship games on Nov. 29, Broadcasting & Cable reports. GrandStadium TV will charge $9.95. Stations in Kansas City, Topeka and Joplin-Pittsburgh have all…
Comedy Central will use New York’s BLVD/Crash Mansion nightclub as a live venue to preview and showcase some of its on-screen performers, Daily Variety reports. The venue, which the network will use similarly to Los Angeles’ Comedy Central Stage, will…
Teenagers who watch racy television shows are more likely to be involved with pregnancies, the Associated Press reports, citing a Rand Corp. study. Teenage boys and girls who regularly watched shows such as “Friends,” “That ’70s Show” and “Sex and…
About 20 new “Peanuts” Webisodes have been created and will be sold on Apple’s iTunes service, the Associated Press reports. The three- to four-minute clips, created by Warner Bros. Motion Comics and done with the blessing of creator Charles Schulz’s…
Cox Television President Andy Fisher, who has been a strong voice for local TV stations on the national broadcasting and regulatory landscapes, is retiring at the end of the year from the company he joined in 1984. He will be…
Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari are likely to have different ideas about how to resolve the debt problems at the family holding company, National Amusements, which owns controlling interests in CBS and Viacom, the Wall Street Journal says. Mr….
The broadcast networks plan to expand their evening newscasts to an hour on Monday, the eve of an election that has captured the nation’s attention, TelevisionWeek says. The move is likely to draw higher ratings by capitalizing on viewer interest…
CBS, the oldest-skewing network, is attracting more younger viewers this year with some of its newest shows including “The Mentalist,” the New York Times says. The bad economy appears to be good for CBS’ comfort-food brand of programming. “It’s kind…